MetallicaOn a long and lonesome
highway east of OmahaYou can hear the engine moanin'out his one long one note songYou can think about the womanor the girl you knew the night beforeBut your thoughts will be wanderingthe way they always doWhen you're ridin' sixteen hoursand there's nothin' much to doAnd you don't feel much like ridin',you just wish the trip was throughHere I amOn the road againThere I amUp on the stageHere I goPlayin' star againThere I goTurn the pageWell you walk into a restaurant,strung out from the roadAnd you feel the eyes upon youas you're shakin' off the coldYou pretend it doesn't bother youbut you just want to explodeMost times you can't hear them talk,other times you canAll the same old clichà©'s,"Is that a woman or a man?"And you always seem outnumbered,you don't dare make a standOn the road againThere I amUp on the stageHere I goPlayin' star againThere I goTurn the pageOut there in the spotlightyou're a million miles awayEvery ounce of energy you try to give awayAs the sweat pours out your bodylike the music that you playLater in the evening as you lie awake in bedWith the echoes of the amplifiersringin' in your headYou smoke the day's last cigarette,rememberin' what she saidHere I amOn the road againThere I amUp on the stageHere I goPlayin' star againThere I goTurn the pageHere I amOn the road againThere I amUp on the stageHere I goPlayin' star againThere I goThere I goThere I go
martedì 26 maggio 2009
lunedì 25 maggio 2009
BEOWULF COMICS
The most important and ancient poem of Anglo-Saxon literature is here narrated in prose by a contemporary English writer.
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'THE LEGEND OF BEOWULF' THE VIDEOGAME
Fantasy action game inspired by the epic medieval namesake and somewhat related to the film in production at Paramount, directed by Robert Zemeckis.
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The Legend Of Beowulf (2007)
In Denmark, A.D. 507, the realm of King Hrothgar is threatened by the tormented demon Grendel that attacks the locals in their celebrations. The Danish king offers a reward for the death of the creature, attracting to Herot the brave Geet warrior Beowulf that seeks for glory. After a fierce battle, Beowulf defeats the demon and after receiving an old relic as reward, he finds his men slaughtered in the party saloon of the castle. King Hrothgar advises that the Grendel's mother was the responsible for the bloodshed and Beowulf chases her in the lake where she lives. The creature takes the form of a seductive woman and seduces Beowulf with a promise of becoming an invincible and wealthy king if he makes love to her and gives his golden relic to her. Years later, King Beowulf feels the aftermath of his sin.
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Beowulf and Grendel (2003)
The heroic Scandinavian warrior Beowulf, set sail from southernSweden to help the people of Denmark
The heroic Scandinavian warrior Beowulf, set sail from southern
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Beowulf (1999)
Beowulf, in a world outside time, ravaged by centuries of barbarism, the civilization of man is now in pieces. In this world full of violence and hate, Beowulf vague. He's a man cursed condemned to wander forever because he's the son of a mortal and the devil. To win the Evil our hero has to face and groped to beat his opponent more formidable, Grendel, a damned creature that hides in the deepest recesses of a inaccessible fortress.
Beowulf, in a world outside time, ravaged by centuries of barbarism, the civilization of man is now in pieces. In this world full of violence and hate, Beowulf vague. He's a man cursed condemned to wander forever because he's the son of a mortal and the devil. To win the Evil our hero has to face and groped to beat his opponent more formidable, Grendel, a damned creature that hides in the deepest recesses of a inaccessible fortress.
lunedì 18 maggio 2009
History of Denmark in 8th century
In the 8th century CE there are several kings of both mythical and quasi-historical carachter. The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf tells that Hroar was king of the Danes. The poem was written in the 8th century, but there is no clue to when the alledged events of the poem took place. A peculiar note to this is that Hroar actually was king, he was just king of the Herules; a sub-group of the Gothic tribes of central- and eastern Europe. Interestingly it is said that the heathen Herules wandered back north to their fellow believers when the Goths were christianised (Jordane).
Saxo lists a king Roar, son of Dan, who alledgedly founded the city of Roskilde, the capital of Denmark through a longer period in the Middle Ages, until Bishop Absalon founded Copenhagen, at the time only known as 'Hafn' (Habor).
Ongendus/Angantyr is also said to have ruled in this century, as well as Sigfrid.
In the 8th century CE there are several kings of both mythical and quasi-historical carachter. The Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf tells that Hroar was king of the Danes. The poem was written in the 8th century, but there is no clue to when the alledged events of the poem took place. A peculiar note to this is that Hroar actually was king, he was just king of the Herules; a sub-group of the Gothic tribes of central- and eastern Europe. Interestingly it is said that the heathen Herules wandered back north to their fellow believers when the Goths were christianised (Jordane).
Saxo lists a king Roar, son of Dan, who alledgedly founded the city of Roskilde, the capital of Denmark through a longer period in the Middle Ages, until Bishop Absalon founded Copenhagen, at the time only known as 'Hafn' (Habor).
Ongendus/Angantyr is also said to have ruled in this century, as well as Sigfrid.
The history of Beowulf
Beowulf is a long poem that somebody wrote down around 1000 AD. The poem is in Old English, so whoever wrote it probably lived in England. It's one of the oldest poems written in English (but not the oldest).
But the poem tells a story about things that happened in the early 500's AD - nearly 500 years before the poem was written down. The story takes place in Denmark and Sweden, and involves real people who lived in the early 500's AD, who we know about from other written stories in Swedish and also from archaeology.
When Beowulf was being composed and written, the Anglo-Saxons had only recently moved from Denmark and Sweden to England, so they still had a lot of friends and relatives back home, and they told stories about the things these people were doing.
Beowulf is a long poem that somebody wrote down around 1000 AD. The poem is in Old English, so whoever wrote it probably lived in England. It's one of the oldest poems written in English (but not the oldest).
But the poem tells a story about things that happened in the early 500's AD - nearly 500 years before the poem was written down. The story takes place in Denmark and Sweden, and involves real people who lived in the early 500's AD, who we know about from other written stories in Swedish and also from archaeology.
When Beowulf was being composed and written, the Anglo-Saxons had only recently moved from Denmark and Sweden to England, so they still had a lot of friends and relatives back home, and they told stories about the things these people were doing.
Monsters or evil creatures abound in early Nothern European literatures; in the Anglo-Sasson Period in the pagan epic poem Beowulf, the homonymus hero fights the dragon Grendel, and Grendel's mother, while in the German epic cycle of the Nibelungenliend, Siegfred likewise mist and snow in the Northern hemisphere might have given rise tureal or imaginary monsters in the minds of these writers. Instead Christianity has interpetred such struggles as man's fight against the devil. In fourth century A.D., a young Cristian soldier named George killed a dragon in order to save a girl from being sacrificed.
lunedì 11 maggio 2009
Denmark economy
With very few natural resources, the mixed economy of Denmark relies almost entirely on human resources.
Denmark in the past and in the present
PAST AND PRESENT
This following article by Sune Dahlgård was printed in the anti-immigration magazine Danskeren (The Dane) in April 1995. Sune Dahlgård was interned by the Germans during the Second World War because he had printed and distributed illegal papers. In order to avoid misunderstandings all quotations in italics are taken literally from comment to the Bill introduced by the minister of justice.
This following article by Sune Dahlgård was printed in the anti-immigration magazine Danskeren (The Dane) in April 1995. Sune Dahlgård was interned by the Germans during the Second World War because he had printed and distributed illegal papers. In order to avoid misunderstandings all quotations in italics are taken literally from comment to the Bill introduced by the minister of justice.
lunedì 4 maggio 2009
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A kenning is a circumlocution used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse and later Icelandic poetry. For example, Old Norse poets might replace sverð, the regular word for “sword”, with a compound such as ben-grefill “wound-hoe”or a genitive phrase such as randa íss “ice of shields”. The term kenning has been applied by modern scholars to similar figures of speech in other languages too, especially Old English.
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